"FreeBSD 8 is autotuning in a lot of areas, and the autotuning for ZFS has been improved," said FreeBSD developer Josh Paetzel. "People who are using ZFS heavily generally were already running 8-STABLE because it was superior to 8.1. 8.2 rolls up those changes into a release."

FreeBSD 8.2 comes as the first release of the year for the open source operating system, and is accompanied by the 7.4 version, the final release in the 7.x series.